As I look back on our work from the Gestalt portion of our last Intensive, I find myself increasingly appreciative of the introduction to this framework. Between my own experiences, as well as our online posts, Gestalt gives a way to synthesize the cues that each of us experiences. In other words, it helpfully articulates why I might feel a shift…

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Greetings Sue, thank you for your post. It sounds like you were able to fluidly integrate some of the Gestalt approach into your time together. Was coaching a client with an anger “issue” unsettling, or give you any sort of reservations? Im also wondering if you felt there was a place for parts work in your sessions?

Agreed Sue! Remembering this helps me a great deal 🙂

Thank you for your post Greg. I appreciate your honest and real approach to the material and work. I can relate to the application of the material…when and how, as well as keeping it as a tool in one’s back pocket. In one of your reflective questions, you noted experiencing the challenge of knowing what to say at the right time, every time.…

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Toolbox – Gestalt Therapy & Partswork

Julie Gandulla

Client:

“Sam” is a 40 year old single, professional. She is outgoing and funny, but has few truly close friends. Sam has a no non-sense work ethic, and struggles with office relations as she tends to be very single minded about what is the “right” way to do something. Sam is currently single bu…

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It sounds like you are really listening to yourself on how to get the most out of your path with EBI. It can be a tough decision to make, but it sounds like it will afford you the time and space to do what you are doing now and continue learning at a pace that will maximize your experience. Do you think your idea of who you will work with will…

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Hi Greg! Thank you for you post, it really brought to light how important it is that we honor our unique styles and personalities as coaches. I think its amazing how you outline working with businesses and corporations, while I am thinking the opposite for myself. But how cool! How crucial it is to bring the empowering and healing approach of…

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When I think about coaching/guiding, an individual who is gathering energy comes to mind. More specifically, they have a critical level of desire for change, open-mindedness about what that change might look like, and drive to engage with a new way of being. I have been in martial arts my whole life and have delved more into the softer martial…

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Threshold is a concept and experience that I am definitely in an ongoing and active learning process with. I struggle with segueing into threshold, as the planning sometimes feels forced and unnatural. However, the actually experience of it when it does occur can be very profound. I look forward to learning more about this process and how I can…

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Lilia when you brought to light that the most powerful threshold experiences you have had were those where Nature participated, it really resonated with me. I, myself have had threshold experiences where nature has been a participant in varying degrees, but you are so right it has been the most transformative ones where Nature is intensely…

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I really appreciate the vivid way you describe your own experience with threshold Greg. It is so vivid and full of feeling, not only physically but emotionally as well. It really calls me to remember this process is very much about feeling. Also, I liked how you touched on the ICF Core Competencies being detailed expectations. At first they seemed…

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Threshold in this sense is a very new idea for me. It seems simultaneously exciting, while uncomfortable and a bit nerve wracking. In my personal experience as client it has been a positive and exciting place to be, the unknown in many ways is a comfortable spot for me that signals adventure and opportunity. Nevertheless, I have had the flipside…

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Summary Post:

In “final” reflection, the relationship between Ecopsychology and NCC seems interwoven. The efficacy of either seems to rest within each. Ecopsychology brings powerful practical awareness to NCC, that in a science driven world can provide great validity to “common-sense” claims. And NCC brings powerful practical application to Ecopsyc…

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Thank you Greg! Great insights. I really connect with your points about how the science helps people understand and get behind a concept, but that it can complicate things as well. And how Ecopsychology and NNC really go hand in hand, energizing one another. Your point about advice giving is very timely as well. I find myself drawn into this…

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Greetings Lilia! I really appreciated how you lasered in on the perpetuation of humans being as separate and more important than nature when one delineates using nature as merely a tool for human healing. It really called the reader to the depth of concept. I also feel that your points regarding ecopsychology opening communication with the…

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Ecopsychology seems to have a number of different paradigms, possibly due to the sheer scope of the approach and/or because of its relative newness (at least in modern terms). Nevertheless, Buzzell & Chalquist in Psyche and Nature in a Circle of Healing, defined Ecopsychology with efficiency and inclusiveness when they stated simply that…

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